The La Niña weather pattern can cause droughts in the southern United States, including parts of eastern Texas. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two new NOAA-funded ...
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A special issue of the open-access journal Climate Risk Management focuses on the role that boundary organizations—organizations that help broker scientific information between scientists and ...
On Friday, April 7, 2023, NASA launched the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (EVI-1) (TEMPO) satellite mission from the Kennedy Space Center. TEMPO will provide high resolution air quality data on an hourly basis across North America.
High-hazard structures such as dams and nuclear power plants have been engineered to withstand floods from unlikely but possible precipitation, but precipitation estimates are based on outdated work.
The product will help scientists identify whether an extreme heat event tomorrow is significant or actually “extreme” relative to the historical record. It may also help assess extreme heat impacts …
From July 28-30, Climate Program Office Director Wayne Higgins and CPO Climate and Health Lead Juli Trtanj are participating in a workshop on the development of climate services for a National ...
The National Marine Sanctuary Climate Change Science Priorities Workshop Report is now available to the public. The report summarizing a cross-NOAA workshop held in January 2021 organized to identify the climate science and information needs of national marine sanctuaries, and actions needed to meet those needs.
On June 8, 2021, the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) released a strategy for the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (NCSMMN). It is a multi-institutional effort to plan for and support nationally coordinated soil moisture monitoring, data assimilation, and product development.